Big Picture Ideas to Save the Economy

Fall 2017

Designing a Sustainable Future: A New Economy as if People Mattered

Session Three: Big Picture Ideas to Save the Economy

Music: Billy Joel, "Allentown"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3bcBBA9_68

Essential questions:

• What are some challenges facing the US economy?

• What are some prescriptive ideas to address these challenges?

• What are the pros and cons of each prescriptive idea?

Gathering: After looking at the Preferred State, Present State or Incubator ideas that we have created, I would like to add the following idea…”

Video:  Robert Reich, The Big Picture, moveon.org (You Tube)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXKLa2zfoTk&list=PLM_d2vWvHtwDtdv7G6OeEykgWfy7a4xeY&index=1

            • select four of the case studies for review and discussion

           

Debrief:

            • MoveOn debrief sheet

            • What are the pros and cons of these alternative structures?

Closing: Something that I learned in this session was…..

 Readings:

•  Steven Rosenfeld, “ 37 Ways to Reform the Economy So It’s Not Rigged for the Rich, According to Progressive Economists, “ Alternet, May 13,2015

http://www.alternet.org/economy/37-ways-reform-economy-so-its-not-rigged-rich-according-progressive-economists

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

            Buckminster Fuller